The Skallywaggle Tails: Get Away (Multi-Touch Interactive)

Holly Heise

This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device. Books with interactive features may work best on an iOS device. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later.

Description

This is a unique interactive musical storybook rich with activities, games, songs, piano, and multi-touch musical sounds. Everyone loves the Skallywaggle Tails™ band who play music for kids across the galaxy… everyone except the Silencers. They don’t like music and want the band to stop inspiring the children to sing, play, and dance. The Skallywaggle Tails™ are on their way to a gig when the Silencers chase them with bubbles of silence. So what can they do? The band uses music to power their guitar-shaped ship but no matter how fast they play they can’t outrun the Silencers. They better think of something fast!

Children are immersed in the musical world of the Skallywaggle Tails™. Imaginations soar as they sing, dance, and play helping to save the music from those who are trying to silence the galaxy. Tons of fun and learning!

An angora cat ripping up the keyboard. A foxy fashionista who plays bass. A mongrel captain who is smart, funny, inspiring and the best lead guitar in space! A robot dog combination Einstein/ninja. And the entire Skallywaggles Band looking for YOU – kids of all ages - to help them tell their tales, sing their songs and power the universe! Tune in to the Skallywaggles for oodles of tails and tales and hours of educational fun!

This book has a fun story filled with interactive pages that include over a hundred touch responsive musical sounds, videos, songs, activities and games that inspire kids! Rich illustrations and sparkling rhymes add to the stellar musical adventure. This wonderful and unusual interactive book will open your child’s imagination to galactic possibilities! Add to your child’s experience by downloading the album, “Get Away”, available via iTunes and at skallywaggletails.com.

For ages 4 – 8.

BookKEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING!
• Musical story with a loveable musical band from a magical musical planet.
• Nemesis/conflict – The Silencers who are trying to eliminate music from the galaxy.
• Explores the musical concept of slow and fast as well as instrument sounds of keyboard, bass, drums and guitar in an “edutainment” environment.
• Each page is highly interactive.
• Narration with music is automatic but user controlled with a touch of the audio button on each page.
Activities
• Playable Piano With and Without Music score – the child is cued to play a Skallywaggle song melody on a touch screen virtual piano and also has the opportunity to make up a musical piece.
• 6 Songs – six full-length Skallywaggle songs are included. That’s a $4.99 value alone!
• 6 Videos – fun dance and instructional movies
• 4 Puzzles – ranging from easy (6 pieces) to harder (30 pieces)
• 4 Reveal & hear instruments – keyboards, guitars, percussion, bass
• 2 Drag & Drop Music Notes – child moves the notes into position on the staff
• 5 Coloring Pages, 1 Free Draw Page – 4 Skallywaggle characters & ship, and the free draw enables the child to create whatever they wish!
• Photo widget – enables the child to take a photo as a Skallywaggle Fan.
• 10 Match & Memory Games – Match by seeing and hearing instruments and characters playing instruments. Range from easy to harder. Again, focused on keyboards, bass, guitars, and percussion.
• Interactive Fireworks – the child touches the screen and creates a fireworks display while listening to Skallywaggle songs.
Requirements
To view this book, you must have an iPad with iBooks 3 or later and iOS 5.1 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later.

What's New in Version 1.1

Apple compliance fix.

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Customer Reviews

Awesome program!

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Crystal886$9

My 5 year old loves this! Even though she is unable to read she can enjoy and participate because it is narrated in an audio book format. She was totally enthralled with the story and keeps finding more touch buttons with sounds, music, animations and movies. There are so many activities that she likes. She's been at it for hours. It's nice to see her learning and having fun on the iPad. And we all love the piano - even my husband is playing it with my daughter and playing songs.

A great story

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Anna and gabrielle

The kids love this new musical book!!

Awesome Tool for Introducing Kids to Music!

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KTV14

I just love this interactive and entertaining storybook. It's a great tool for getting young kids interested in music. It inspires creativity and learning. Such a cool way to explore the endless possibilities of music. Wonderful!!!